Chapter 136: Young Love
** Harper **
Kissing Eli in a hidden corner of a hotel hallway quickly became Harper’s favorite activity. It felt freeing, to be able to share intimate moments like this with him to her heart’s content, and for the first time in her life, Harper was tempted to ditch her work meetings so that she could spend all afternoon right there instead, lost in his hard kisses and soft touches and sweet whispers.
Even though the workaholic in her won in the end, sending her reluctantly yet dutifully back to the conference rooms where she belonged, it was still a once-in-a-blue-moon deal that she arrived only five minutes before the meeting instead of the usual fifteen. Even more once-in-a-blue-moon that instead of going straight for her laptop, she opted for checking her phone the first thing after sitting down, eagerly searching for the row of hearts waiting for her attention.
Was this the budding feeling of being in love?
The text wasn’t there yet, though. Maybe Eli was still on his way to his own meeting hall. Harper was just about to send out those hearts herself when the phone buzzed in her hand, with a text not from Eli but from a different contact:
[ Chelsea: OMG OMG OMG. Tell me everything about last night!! Graphical details optional (though I know you’re good at those) ]
Harper almost choked on air reading the message.
Right, she had texted Chelsea this morning to thank her for the tips that led to the new relationship milestone ... Of course that would open up the floodgate of the world-famous Tell Chelsea show! Harper barely had the time to swipe over to a new text window when another message followed immediately: [ And what about today? Let me guess, you were late for meetings because of too much unplanned morning exercises. ]
... Yep, that was the kind of comments only Chelsea could give you. Harper fought back the urge to simultaneously giggle and roll her eyes. After some consideration of how much to share, she typed, [ Don’t worry Mom, we’re both behaving today. Though he did just press me to a wall and kiss the air out of my lungs. ]